Writers Quotes

You shouldn't write about your personal life', says the one feeling threatened by the truth to the writer.

~ Robin Sacredfire

God's justice will always be found at the end of a pen.

~ Shannon L. Alder

That is how we writers all started: by reading. We heard the voice of a book speaking to us.

~ Margaret Atwood

Those who spend the greater part of their time in reading or writing books are, of course, apt to take rather particular notice of accumulations of books when they come across them. They will not pass a stall, a shop, or even a bedroom-shelf without reading some title, and if they find themselves in an unfamiliar library, no host need trouble himself further about their entertainment.

~ M.r. James

To create art with all the passion in one's soul is to live art with all the beauty in one's heart.

~ Aberjhani

Lighten up. Brighten up. Smile.

~ A.d. Posey

A fiery spirit bursts from your soul.

~ A.d. Posey

Love awakens the soul.

~ A.d. Posey

Hollywood shines by virtue of light within.

~ A.d. Posey

Soup is cozy.

~ A.d. Posey

I could crawl inside the lyrics and know each note intimately. They would claw at my soul, until I could no longer fight the emotions that took me to a place I couldn't experience. But, it was the possibility that made every verse a heart filled prediction and every beat a direction to follow.

~ Shannon L. Alder

No one will come and save you. No one will come riding on a white horse and take all your worries away. You have to save yourself, little by little, day by day. Build yourself a home. Take care of your body. Find something to work on. Something that makes you excited, something you want to learn. Get yourself some books and learn them by heart. Get to know the author, where he grew up, what books he read himself. Take yourself out for dinner. Dress up for no one but you and simply feel nice. it’s a lovely feeling, to feel pretty. You don’t need anyone to confirm it.

~ Charlotte Eriksson

Always have class but always kick ass.

~ A.d. Posey

Four great adventures; read, learn, write and travel.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

A reader knows the mind of sacred souls.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

She has a beautiful heart that plays a euphonious symphony. She is the Zahir that touches your Soul.

~ Avijeet Das

She has this amazing aura around her which catches you off-guard. A girl’s innocence combined with a woman’s sensitivity. A charm that is alluring and attractive at the same time.

~ Avijeet Das

I didn't come looking for you the day you uninvitedly appeared on my doorstepHow did we go from nonchalant conversation me waiting for you to turn me off with corny jokes and mind dumbing conversationto loveTo love and mind blowing chemistry that I've yet to make sense of What are you here to teach me?

~ Maquita Donyel Irvin

She was rare, few and far betweenShe suspected he would be as wellAnd the thought of two rare, few and far between individualsDoing all that was necessary for that rare, few and far between Meeting to occurDrove her to write

~ Maquita Donyel Irvin

It is not often that someone comes along who is a true friend and a good writer.

~ E.b. White

Saturday night is perfect for writers because other people have plans.

~ Mike Birbiglia

There’s a writer for you,” he said. “Knows everything and at the same time he knows nothing.” [narrator]It was my first inkling that he was a writer. And while I like writers—because if you ask a writer anything you usually get an answer—still it belittled him in my eyes. Writers aren’t people exactly. Or, if they’re any good, they’re a whole lot of people trying so hard to be one person. It’s like actors, who try so pathetically not to look in mirrors. Who lean backward trying—only to see their faces in the reflecting chandeliers.

~ F. Scott Fitzgerald

My problem as a writer is that—whenever I meet someone for the first time—I immediately invent for them a personality and background that are invariably more interesting than the ones they possess. And confirming this character to be uninteresting after a few minutes of conversation, I decide that they are unnecessary to my story and begin devising ways to kill them off.

~ James Rozoff

Novelists and the literary world play an important part in shaping languages. The Swahili they write influence the readers and their languages. The literary obstacle in Tanzania is not that people do not read, but that they don’t read because there are no interesting writers.

~ Enock Maregesi

World War I was the most colossal, murderous, mismanaged butchery that has ever taken place on earth. Any writer who said otherwise lied, So the writers either wrote propaganda, shut up, or fought.

~ Ernest Hemingway

Practical affairs task the human brain throughout the day. At night, the mind takes a deserved hiatus to consider the impossible and the absurd. In the carnage of our nighttime sleep tussles, the colored liqueurs of the true, the possible, fantasy, and the mythic beliefs become intermixed. Eyelets of the commonsensical and the imaginative are incorporated, and a new realism emerges out of our distilled perception of the veridical derived from the phenomenal realm of sensory reality and the philosophic world of ideals contained in the noumenal realm. The resultant psychobiologic vision immerses us in bouts of intoxicating inspiration and artistic stimulation and leaves us rickety boned and weakened after enduring a dreaded hangover of perpetual doubt laced with vagueness and insecurity.

~ Kilroy J. Oldster

Dreams, kindled in the fire of imagination,ignite in the brilliance of our minds,and are wrought in the work of our hands -

~ Suzy Davies

I didn't want to sing.I wanted to be music.

~ Jenim Dibie

Comfort yields complacency. Break free.

~ A.d. Posey

People have many cruel expectations from writers. People expect novelists to live on a hill with three kids and a spouse, people expect children's story writers to never have sex, and people expect all great poets to be dead. And these are all very difficult expectations to fulfill, I think.

~ C. Joybell C.

If you want to find out if someone is a true bookworm or not, give them a thousand page novel and see what happens.

~ E.a. Bucchianeri

To increase the chances of a writer trying to kill themselves, cut off their hands.

~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Don’t be timid. You’re a writer, use your role, test it, make something of it. These are decisive times, everything is turning upside down. Participate, be present. And begin with the scum in your area, put their backs to the wall.

~ Elena Ferrante

And you must not worry about me. You must follow your dreams. You have your life ahead of you. I am just a wanderer passing by.

~ Avijeet Das

Tonight is the night of telling our stories. You tell three and I four.

~ Avijeet Das

If art is not to be life-enhancing, what is it to be? Half the world is feminine--why is there resentment at a female-oriented art? Nobody asks The Tale of Genji to be masculine! Women certainly learn a lot from books oriented toward a masculine world. Why is not the reverse also true? Or are men really so afraid of women's creativity (because they are not themselves at the center of creation, cannot bear children) that a woman writer of genius evokes murderous rage, must be brushed aside with a sneer as 'irrelevant'?

~ May Sarton

The women of the South have brought into American literature a unique mixture of domesticity and grotesquerie.

~ James Dickey

Be the energy you want others to absorb.

~ A.d. Posey

Greatness is achieved through kindness, compassion, and love.

~ A.d. Posey

A good friend is a healing friend.

~ A.d. Posey